Kidnapper of Jayme Closs in custody

88 days in captivity: Saga of 13-year-old's horrific kidnapping

Published: 01/12/2019 at 8:23 PM

(ABC News) The search for her started with a mysterious 911 call from the cellphone of her mother, who was found shot to death with her father in their Wisconsin home. Despite fears that 13-year-old Jayme Closs was snatched by the killer and met a similar fate as her parents, loved ones and sheriff’s investigators never gave up on finding her alive.

From her horrific abduction to her remarkable escape, here is the timeline of the eighth-grader’s 88 days in captivity: